FRENCH SCHOOL, circa 1750

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FRENCH SCHOOL, circa 1750

Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France, seated, wearing a red velvet dress set with brown fur and bordered with white lace, the sleeves and corsage embellished with red bows, her white powdered hair adorned with a white lace cap tied under her chin with a black lace scarf; green drapery and columns in the background; on parchment, rectangular -- 56 x 76 mm, gilt-metal mount

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Marie (1703-1768), daugther of Stanislas Leszczynski, ex-King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine, and his wife Catherine Opalinska, was married to King Louis XV of France in 1725. She gave birth to two boys and eight girls.
The present miniature is after Jean-Marc Nattier's oil painting of 1748 in Versailles Castle.

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